Be Nice to Spiders

Two-time Caldecott Honor winner Margaret Bloy Graham writes and illustrates these delightful stories for young children.

Be Nice to Spiders describes the environmental benefit that spiders provide while weaving a cute story about a zookeeper who wants a nice neat zoo without spider webs. In the end, the zookeeper realizes that spiders are beneficial to the zoo animals.

Benjy and Fifi is a story about the friendship between two dogs, a dog show and how Benjy saves Fifi’s life. It’s a fun and often requested book for younger listeners.

In addition to writing the previous books, Margaret Graham illustrated the Harry the Dog series (written by Gene Zion). The Harry books talk about various days in the life of a white dog with black spots. Harry hates taking a bath, despises wearing a rose-designed doggie sweater, can’t stand the operatic singing of the lady next door and gets lost at the beach.

Titles include Harry the Dirty Dog; No Roses for Harry; Harry and the Lady Next Door and Harry by the Sea.